Cross-Cultural Differences in Children's Beliefs about the Objectivity of Social Categories

Autor/inn/en	Diesendruck, Gil; Goldfein-Elbaz, Rebecca; Rhodes, Marjorie; Gelman, Susan; Neumark, Noam
Titel	Cross-Cultural Differences in Children's Beliefs about the Objectivity of Social Categories
Quelle	In: Child Development, 84 (2013) 6, S.1906-1917 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/cdev.12108
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Cultural Differences; Comparative Analysis; Children; Cross Cultural Studies; Beliefs; Classification; Sex; Occupations; Race; Ethnicity; Bias; Cultural Influences; Israel; North America + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Kultureller Unterschied; Child; Kind; Kinder; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Belief; Glaube; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Geschlecht; Geschlechtsverkehr; Beruf; Berufsumfeld; Rasse; Abstammung; Ethnizität; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Nordamerika
Abstract	The present study compared 5-and 10-year-old North American and Israeli children's beliefs about the objectivity of different categories (n = 109). Children saw picture triads composed of two exemplars of the same category (e.g., two women) and an exemplar of a contrasting category (e.g., a man). Children were asked whether it would be acceptable or wrong for people in a different country to consider contrasting exemplars to be the same kind. It was found that children from both countries viewed gender as objectively correct and occupation as flexible. The findings regarding race and ethnicity differed in the two countries, revealing how an essentialist bias interacts with cultural input in directing children's conceptualization of social groups. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10